Hong Hao

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b. 1965, Beijing, China

Much of Hong Hao’s work features assembled and scanned images of various found objects including maps, books, tickets, receipts, banknotes, food, and containers.

In his 2009 solo exhibition Hong Hao: Bottom at Beijing Commune, the artist exhibited a series that features the bottom half of everyday objects. By arranging the scanned images according to their forms and colors, he destructs the functional property of the materials and reproduces an undifferentiated, flattened, deliberately superficial world of aesthetics. While Hong Hao continues to work with found objects as a precursor to finished work, AS IT IS, his solo exhibition at Beijing Commune (2011), demonstrated the artist’s employment of physical forms in a more straightforward manner, creating an interesting dialectical development of both the language and the concept of his art.

Between Past and Future - New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography and Asia Society, New York, June 11–September 5, 2004. Travelled to Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, October 2, 2004–January 16, 2005; Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, October 19, 2006 – February 18, 2007. (Catalogue)